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The role serves as a trusted business partner to functional leadership, R&D Finance, and cross-functional stakeholders, ensuring financial plans accurately reflect portfolio priorities, operational requirements, and evolving business needs.\nThe Manager provides financial analysis, decision support, and operational oversight to enable effective resource allocation and financially responsible execution. This role also drives consistent application of budget management processes, systems, controls, and reporting standards across the supported organization.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the end-to-end budget management and execution process for one or more VP-level R&D functions.\nCoordinate annual budget planning, long-range planning, quarterly forecasts, leadership updates, and periodic financial exercises.\nOwn the budget-management cadence, including complete line-item visibility for planned spend, commitments, actuals, forecast and closed-with-Finance status.\nTranslate business strategies, portfolio priorities, resource plans, and operational assumptions into actionable financial forecasts.\nPartner with functional leadership and R&D Finance to ensure budgets and forecasts reflect the latest business priorities and anticipated spend.\nLead recurring budget reviews with RAEs, functional leads and Finance. Identify variance, unused funds, forecast risk, engagement funding needs and required actions.\nProvide timely financial reporting, variance analysis, trend analysis, and identification of financial risks and opportunities.\nDevelop financial scenarios and business cases to support investment, resource allocation, portfolio, and operating-model decisions.\nMaintain accurate alignment between planned activities, financial forecasts, commitments, and actual transactions within applicable planning and reporting systems.\nOversee and coordinate budget execution activities, including purchase orders, accruals, cost entries, invoice resolution, funding transfers, and financial coding. \nSet operating standards, SLAs and escalation pathways for MyBuy/Ariba, supplier onboarding, PO, invoice, ePayment, accrual, transfer and closeout workflows.\nMonitor financial performance and proactively recommend corrective actions to address forecast variances, emerging risks, or execution challenges.\nResolve escalated budget, procurement, transaction, and financial process issues in partnership with Finance, Procurement, suppliers, and business stakeholders.\nPrepare clear and concise financial updates for functional leadership, including key assumptions, decisions required, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.\nServe as a subject-matter expert for budget planning, forecasting, financial systems, and budget execution processes.\nEstablish and maintain effective relationships across R&D functions, Finance, Global Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management, and transactional support teams.\nEnsure budget processes and documentation comply with applicable Amgen financial controls, procurement requirements, policies, and operating procedures.\nDrive simplification, standardization, automation, and continuous improvement of budget management processes, tools, and reporting.\nProvide guidance, coaching, and work direction to Budget Management team members or business partners, as applicable.\nComplete people-management responsibilities, including performance and development activities, when the role includes direct reports.\nOversee direct report(s) workflow execution and resolve escalated procure-to-pay, supplier, payment, coding, scope and policy issues in partnership with Finance, GSS, Procurement, Legal and suppliers.\nDecision-Making Authority\nAdvises functional leaders on budget priorities, forecast assumptions, financial risks, and resource trade-offs.\nChallenges financial assumptions and recommends adjustments based on business priorities, actual performance, and emerging trends.\nDetermines appropriate analytical approaches and reporting required to support business decisions.\nPrioritizes budget execution activities and coordinates resolution of issues affecting financial deliverables.\nEscalates material financial risks, control concerns, and unresolved execution issues to appropriate leadership.\nSupports consistent interpretation and application of budget management processes and standards.\nEvaluate material forecast variances, questionable costs, supplier redlines, payment discrepancies and control concerns. Determine corrective action or escalate to the appropriate owner.\nKey Deliverables\nAccurate and timely annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.\nFunctional financial reporting and leadership decision support.\nAct as the financial steward and trusted advisor to RAEs, Finance, Procurement and vendors. Translate data into clear budget decisions, trade-offs and next steps.\nVariance, trend, risk, and opportunity analyses.\nFinancial scenarios and business-case analyses.\nTimely completion of accruals, purchase-order maintenance, and other finance-driven activities.\nAccurate mapping of transactions and commitments to planned activities.\nDocumented financial assumptions, decisions, and required actions.\nStandardized and compliant budget management processes and controls.\nBasic Qualifications\nOne of the following:\nBachelor's or Master's degree and 8 - 12 years of business operations, finance, accounting, or related experience; or\nIn addition:\nExperience leading complex projects, processes, programs, or cross-functional teams.\nDemonstrated experience with budget planning, forecasting, financial analysis, or financial operations.\nAdvanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with financial planning or enterprise resource planning systems, including Anaplan, SAP, Ariba, OPTS and other financial tools.\nStrong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting financial planning and execution within the biopharmaceutical, life sciences, or R&D environment.\nKnowledge of R&D operating models, portfolio planning, resource planning, and financial governance.\nExperience managing budgets for complex, global, or matrixed organizations.\nExperience with financial planning, procurement, purchase-order, reporting, and analytics platforms.\nDemonstrated ability to develop business cases, financial scenarios, forecasts, and management reporting.\nStrong understanding of accruals, commitments, actuals, cost centers, financial coding, and variance management.\nExperience working with Finance, Procurement, suppliers, and shared-service organizations.\nExperience with process improvement, automation, digital reporting, or dashboard development.\nDemonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive 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